As a new day dawned over the Illinois State Legislature one morning in March, a 39-page bill hit the floor like none seen in decades.rnPublic Act 96-0889 proposed slashing $71 billion from future state budgets. It did so by requiring newly hired state employees to work up to a dozen years longer than employees had to in the past, until age 67, to draw full pensions. It sought to forbid them from retiring with more than one government pension, to base pension payments on a salary of no more than $ 107,000 a year and to pare cost-of-living adjustments to arnfraction of their former levels.
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